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 Vowel *a /ɑ/ resulted from a secondary development and can give irregular results in daughter languages, for example: ''*tálu-nə'' > ''*talun'' ("high") became ''tālu'' in West Carpathian and ''tallo'' in East Carpathian, but ''tolu'' in South Carpathian (*a merged with *o into *a in Early Proto-Carpathian and shifted into *o later). Vowel *ä, unlike its back counterpart, failed to shift into *e before some consonant clusters and remained distinct from *e.
-Like in Proto-Oronaic, four reduced vowels were present, marked as *ə<sub>1</sub>, *ə<sub>2</sub>, *ə<sub>3</sub> and *ə<sub>4</sub>, which probably still remained an allophone of *ə<sub>3</sub> The actual realization of them is a question of not known precisely: vowel harmony also applied to those reduced vowels with *ə<sub>1</sub>-*ə<sub>2</sub>, *ë-*ə<sub>4</sub> and *ə<sub>3</sub>-*ə<sub>4</sub> contrasts. Most scholars analize them as following:
+Like in Proto-Oronaic, four reduced vowels were present, marked as *ə<sub>1</sub>, *ə<sub>2</sub>, *ə<sub>3</sub> and *ə<sub>4</sub>, which probably still remained an allophone of *ə<sub>3</sub> The actual realization of them is a question of debate: vowel harmony also applied to those reduced vowels with *ə<sub>1</sub>-*ə<sub>2</sub>, *ë-*ə<sub>4</sub> and *ə<sub>3</sub>-*ə<sub>4</sub> contrasts. Most scholars analize them as following:
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